Ray Kolb’s Blog

I just finished listening to The Silent Man by Alex Berenson, the third book in the John Wells series of spy/thriller novels. I've been reading Alex Berenson's John Wells' books out-of-order but I don't think that has affected my enjoyment of them, except possibly causing me to not enjoy the first one, The Faithful Spy, [...]

Yesterday, I finished reading Bernard Cornwell's The Pale Horseman, the second book in his Saxon Tales, and the fourth Cornwell novel that I have read. The Pale Horseman, set in the times of Alfred the Great, both before and (presumably) during his becoming 'the Great," once again follows Uhtred the Saxon, a pagan who (so [...]

The wife and I watched Snowpiercer last week and we both pretty much had the same reaction. It was interesting, glad we watched, but still not sure if we liked or not. To be honest, I'm not sure if it's important that we liked it. It WAS interesting. Some of the shots were amazing and [...]

I finished reading Brad Torgersen's excellent short story collection, Lights in the Deep. In fact, I actually temporarily stopped reading James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes to read the entire collection after I'd read the first story in the collection, "Outbound," one of the best short stories I've read. It's definitely in my top 10 of [...]

James S.A. Corey is, as most everyone knows, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Leviathan Wakes is the first book in their The Expanse series. This is a big idea space opera "hard-ish" science fiction series, just the kind of thing that I like, as in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep [...]